Vehicle tire and rim.



No. 787,362. PATENTED APRIlS, 1905. F. FELDHAUS.

VEHICLE TIRE AND RIM.

APPLICATION FILED SEPT. 26, 1904.

NO. 787.362. Patented April 18, 1905.

UNTTED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

FRED FELDHAUS, OF AKRON, OlllO, r SSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO PllILLlP KNIERIM, OF AKRON, OIlIO.

VEHiCLE TIRE AND RIM.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 787,362, dated April 18, 1905. 7*}

Application filed September 26,1904. Serial No. 225,955. if;

If 7/ (Wm/""11! ridges -L, which form in conjunction with the Be it known that 1, Farm FnLouAUs, a citimain body portion of the tire an annular shelf. zenof the United States, residing at Akron, in The devices for retaining this tire upon the the county of Summit and State of Ohio, have base-rim 2 of the vehicle-wheel consists of two 3 invented a certain new and useful lmprove rings 5, having inturned and upper and lower 55 ment in Vehicle Tires and Rims, of which the ends, the upper end being arranged to lit over following is a complete specilication. the tops of the ridges 4 and rest on the shelf My invention relates to the application of part which these ridges -l form with the main cushioned tires to wheel-rims and devices for body-tire. The lower inturned edges of the i detachably retaining them. rings 5 are arranged to seat into the body por- 6o 1:

The objects of this invention are to so comtion of the felly 1 immediately below the basebine a cushion-tire and wheel-rim that the tire rim 2. It may sometimes be found necessary will at all times he lirmly held in position and or desirable to groove out the felly 1 immesecured eti'ectually against creeping or diately below the base-r1m 2 to properly seat I5 otherdisplacementand to provide adevice for these rings, or it may be found that other 65 securely uniting the tire and rim together, so means than this can be employed or that these that the tire may be readily placed in position rings 5 can be forced into the material of the at any time and readily removed from its seat felly without this preliminary grooving. for the purposes of repair or replacement,and a These two rings 5 are drawn toward each other further object is to so construct the tire-retainand held in position secure from circumferen- 7o ing mechanism that when being placed in potial motion by a series of rivets 6, the heads sition in conjunction with a tire it will have of which seat in one ring 5 and their other 5 the function of drawing the tire downward ends are upset or swaged in properly-shaped lirmly upon the base-rim upon whicl it will conical openingsintheopposite ring-s5. These seat. In accomplishing these objects I utilize rivets 6 pass through the lower portion of the three instrumentalities lirst, an elastic or tire 3 sutliciently removed from the base-rim cushioned tire: secondly, a base or seat there- 2 to insure a layer of rubber under them and i for, and, thirdly, retaining means whose otlice yet separated enough to insure a secure grip is to draw the tire firmly to the seat and then 1 upon the elastic tire. These rivets 6 are prop- 3 lock it in position so as to firmly secure it erly spaced apart from one another throughagainsteircumferei'itial motion and yet permit out the length of the elastic tire, the amount the tire to be capable of a ready removal from of space intervening between them being deeonnection with the retaining means to the termined by the size and weight of the tire as end that it maybe easily repaired or replaced well as by the quality of work to which the either in part or in whole. tire will be subjected. It is entirely within To the accomplishment of the aforesaid ob the scope of my invention to substitute for jects my invention consists in the novel and these rivets 6 threaded bolts or other suitable peculiar construction, arrangement, and comor preferred means for clamping the rings sebination of parts hereinafter described, refercurely against the felly l and base-rim 2 and 0 ence being hadto the accompanying drawing, to insure their obtaining a lirm and secure 9o forming a part hereof. hold upon the shelf portion of the elastic tire. in the acwmpanying drawing, which repre- This construction of retaining means absosents a transverse section of the tire, rim, and lately insures the elastic tire from circumferfastening mechanism, 1 is an ordinary flatential motion or creeping on its base. 5 faced felly of a vehicle-wheel upon which is \Vhat 1 claim, and desire to secure by Letmounted a band or base-rim 2. ters Patent, is Arranged to be mounted upon the outside The combination in a device for cushioning periphery of the base-rim 2 is an elastic tire vehicle-wheels, of afelly, aflat base-rinitheref 3, preferably of vulcanized india-rubber and on, an elastic tire mounted on said base-rim,

50 provided near its base with projecting side a pair of rings having intnrned edges, one of 0 i which is adapted to be pressed into the material of the felly below the base-rim and the other to clamp upon the elastic tire and means passing through the material of the tire to draw said rings toward one another and clamp them upon said elastic tire and felly substantially as shown and described and for the purpose stated.

In testimony that I claim the above I hereunto set my hand in the presence of two sub- IO scribing Witnesses.

FRED FELDHAUS.

In presence oi' C. E. HUMPHREY, GLENARA FOX. 

